Keep up the pressure on state voter roll purges

Washington Examiner ^ | 15 Jan, 2026 | Washington Examiner

[MtnClimber]

In a victory for the Trump administration, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read announced last week that the state will resume “routine cleanup” of outdated voter registration records, a process dormant since 2017. The effort could ultimately cancel up to 800,000 inactive registrations, roughly 20% of the Beaver State's total voter rolls. This long-overdue cleanup comes only after the Department of Justice sued Oregon and other states to enforce basic voter-roll maintenance standards.

For years, Oregon’s political class treated voter roll maintenance as a nuisance at best and a moral failing at worst. The state paused its cleanup mechanisms in 2017 and allowed a backlog of inactive registrations to pile up. This wasn’t an administrative oversight but a policy choice. It is telling that Oregon didn’t reverse course until the DOJ, under President Donald Trump, applied sustained and necessary pressure.

In September 2025, the Department of Justice sued Oregon and Maine for refusing to provide statewide voter registration records and list-maintenance data needed to enforce the National Voter Registration Act. It has since filed similar lawsuits against a growing roster of states that refused to cooperate and administer their rolls as the law requires, including Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Arizona, and Connecticut.

That pressure is necessary because the problem is national. The Electronic Registration Information Center, an interstate data-matching consortium that many states use to flag outdated registrations, shows how quickly voter rolls go stale. As of Dec. 31, 2025, it identified 13.9 million cross-state movers, nearly 30 million voters needing in-state address updates, 1.38 million duplicate registrations, and roughly 660,000 registrations tied to deceased people.

Predictably, critics claim the DOJ is overreaching and that “election integrity” is code for voter suppression. It is equally arguable

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: cheating; electionfraud; oregon; rigging; voters

[MtnClimber]

Too bad that there are other ways to cheat.

[chiller]

Who cleans the voter rolls ?...a donk sec state ? They’ll find ways to sneak ballots of deleted voters back into drop boxes. I don’t trust them.

PS...I think you typoed your tag

[Bernard]

A self clean-up, without an independent review and penalties for discovered errors, is nice but not effective. We don’t need to add a “War On Ghost Voters” to the “War On Poverty”, “War on Poverty”, and all the other on-going partisan dividing lines. We need actual action, with actual results.

[FlingWingFlyer]

All illegal aliens caught voting should be deported. They used up their “due process” coupon when they violated the U.S. Constitution by interfering in American election. Round ‘em up, THROW THEM OUT!!! This is not their country. Adios Amigos. Time for another hike over Darien Gap.

[Jolla]

Voter ID, polls close at 6. Results at 615.

[Libloather]

Iowa has almost finished counting.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Voter id, no mail in votes

[cnsmom]

Most people died during the winter months and the Snowbird States count on those deaths to cheat. That is why the Democrat blue wall is the snowbird states.

[marktwain]

This was published on MSN?? The world is changing.

[libertylover]

For years, Oregon’s political class treated voter roll maintenance as a nuisance at best and a moral failing at worst.

No, Oregon's political class treated voter roll non-maintenance as a way to cheat and insure Democrat victories.

[MCSETots]

Unfortunately, because of the way the cheating and fraud occurs from the left, IMHO, when red states purge and blue states ignore, then the commies win, simple as that. The blue states will remain blue, purple states will lean/go blue and some of the red states with purged voter rolls are much more vulnerable to fraud.

Sorry, but having watched the results of attempts over the years to “clean up” voting attempts by the right, it seems this is always the result.

[Bon of Babble]

Meanwhile, in vote fraud central, California:

DOJ lawsuit seeking records of 23 million California voters is dismissed by judge

Clinton Judge.

[mewzilla]

Including RCV-enabled electronic voting machines and tabulators.

[Twotone]

If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.

[spintreebob]

1) Why has Trump and DOGE not targeted FEC/HAVA which is the source of voter fraud. Both Red and Blue states take FEC/HAVA money and agree to the HAVA way.

FEC Federal Election Commission/ HAVA Help America Vote Act.

2) Motor-Voter is the main reason non-citizens are registered to vote. The driver license software is designed such that the non-citizen has to go out of his way in an obscure manner to say that he is a non-citizen. Most often the non-citizens do not vote.

The Vote Harvester votes on behalf of the non-citizen, just as is done on behalf of the dead who themselves are unable to vote. ... at least that is what I have seen in IL and GA.